Murnau and Fritz Arno Wagner, his camera man, combined double-exposure techniques associated with spiritualist photographers in the nineteenth century with modern filming and editing techniques to recreate on the screen the ghostly and shadowy world of Count Orlok, the vampire. The film used a variety of different effects to evoke the supernatural. Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen did not have permission to adapt Dracula and they tried to get around this by changing characters’ names and transposing parts of the action to Germany, but when Stoker’s widow found out she sued for copyright infringement and copies were ordered destroyed. It was based on Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula (1897) and we are lucky to have it. Murnau’s 'Nosferatu' (1922) was a controversial and a ground-breaking film in its day. We asked Dr Andrew Plowman to tell us more about this iconic German film, that you can study as part of our Film Studies BA degree course: (Remember that tiny movie called 'Twilight'?) But this Halloween we are thinking back to where it all started: F.
There's no doubt that vampires continue to be a fascination in the world of film. In 2016 posts Count Orlok gets acquainted with Ellen. A ghostly and shadowy world - why we love Nosferatu
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